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... Strength of Intoxicating Liquors 4. Comparative Effects of Inebriating Liquors on the Human System 4. Alcohol , not a " Good Creature of God " CHAPTER XI . ADULTERATIONS OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS . 1. Objects of the System of Adulteration ...
... Strength of Intoxicating Liquors 4. Comparative Effects of Inebriating Liquors on the Human System 4. Alcohol , not a " Good Creature of God " CHAPTER XI . ADULTERATIONS OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS . 1. Objects of the System of Adulteration ...
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... strength . Long continued use renders these various compounds highly agreeable ; physical disorder , indeed , is not unfrequently induced , even by occasional indulgence in another variety of the same liquor . The system habituated to ...
... strength . Long continued use renders these various compounds highly agreeable ; physical disorder , indeed , is not unfrequently induced , even by occasional indulgence in another variety of the same liquor . The system habituated to ...
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... strength , without serious injury , and sup- ported only by the most simple kinds of nutriment . Alcoholic stimulants in all climates , and under every ordinary circumstance , invariably diminish this capability by injuring and wasting ...
... strength , without serious injury , and sup- ported only by the most simple kinds of nutriment . Alcoholic stimulants in all climates , and under every ordinary circumstance , invariably diminish this capability by injuring and wasting ...
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... strength . Hence , they fell an easy prey to the Macedonian king . Herodotus relates , that in his time they drank profusely . " They are accustomed , " says he , " to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine ...
... strength . Hence , they fell an easy prey to the Macedonian king . Herodotus relates , that in his time they drank profusely . " They are accustomed , " says he , " to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine ...
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... strength . They do not at that period seem to have made feasts , ex- cept upon rare occasions . Plutarch alludes to this in his banquet of the seven wise men , where he says , the Scy- thians had neither wines nor instrumental ...
... strength . They do not at that period seem to have made feasts , ex- cept upon rare occasions . Plutarch alludes to this in his banquet of the seven wise men , where he says , the Scy- thians had neither wines nor instrumental ...
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Page 420 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Page 479 - Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich.
Page 412 - I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 25 - But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Page 439 - It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink; lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Page 468 - When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper : and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Page 478 - Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Page 438 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations...
Page 446 - It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak.
Page 469 - But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.